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Articles like this and the 60 minutes piece (which I watched) make me
yearn for the simpler days of automobiles
My first car was a Chrysler Valient four door with a 318 V8 two barrel
carburetor that could do 100 mph. I could lift the hood and see the
whole engine without any wires or hoses in the way. I could do all of
the maintenance myself using just a few tools and and a little elbow
grease. Tuning the engine and changing the plugs were pretty straight
forward and didn't require computers.
With today's vehicles about the only thing an owner can do is change
the oil, flush out the radiator and replace brake pads. Everything
else has to be done at a dealer.
Bruce White, CRM, PMP
Virginia Beach, VA
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your
balance you must keep moving." -- Albert Einstein
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:29 PM, PeterK <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A 14-year-old boy (who looked not a day older than 10, by all accounts)
> went to Radio Shack last July and purchased various electronic parts for
> about $14. He stayed up all night assembling a circuit board, and the
> following morning hacked into a new car, remotely gaining access to the
> vehicle.
>
> “There’s no way he should have been able to do that,” said an automaker
> executive who witnessed the whole performance. “It was a real wake-up call.”
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